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BUTTONHOLE BAND.

(Application mea Nov. 9, 1897.)

(No Model.)

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GEORGE BOXLEY, OF TROY, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO MOSHER da CURTIS, OF SAME PLACE, AND ALFRED POINDEXTER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BUTTONHOLE-BAND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 610,579, datecI'September 13, 1898. Application filed November 9, 1897. Serial No. 657.913- (No model.)

. zen of the United States, residing at Troy,

county of Rensselaer, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buttonhole-Bands, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to such improvements; and it consists of the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and subsequently claimed.

Reference may be had to the accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specifica.

tion.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several figures therein.

Figure l of the drawings is a view in isometrical perspective of one end of the neckband of a shirt embodying my invention and having the continuous facing for the fly-opening in the end of the band formed integrally with both of the outer plies. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing a band having the facing for the fly-opening integral with one only of the outer plies. Fig. 3 is a plan View of the blank adapted to be made into a neckband like that shown in FigJl. Fig. 4i is a transverse section of the same, taken on the broken line 4 4 in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a View similar to Fig. 3, showing the portions of the blank adapted to form the inner pliesof the band folded over upon the body of the blank. Fig. 6 is a transverse section of the same, taken 0n the broken line 6 6 in Fig. 5.' Fig. 7is a view in perspective, showing the facing portion of the blank provided with a rentrant fold and one ofthe facing-plies formed by such fold stitched to the neighboring plies of the band. Fig. 8 is a similar perspective view showing both facing-plies separately stitched to the respective neighboring plies along one edge and the body-plies of the band beyond the faced portion connected by stitching, one branch of the bifnrcated end of the band being drawn away from the other branch for convenience in illustration. Fig. 9 is a transverse section of the same, taken on the broken line 9 9 in Fig. 8. Fig. 10 is a similar section of the band after it has been finished by inversion and secured to the body of the shirt. Fig. 1l is a longitudinal section of one branch of the bifurcated end of the band, taken on the broken line 11 1l in Fig. 8. Fig. 12 is a similar View of the parts shown in Fig. 11 after inversion of the same. Fig. 13 is a view similar to that shown in Fig. 7, showing the rentrant folded facing integral with one only of the outer plies of the band.

The objects of my invention are to facilitate the construction of a buttonhole-band4 for garments having a fly-opening and the walls of the fly-opening reinforced by a continuous facing and to improve the appearance and serviceability of such a band.

Referring to the drawings, as shown in Figs. l, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 1l, and l2, Arepresents a blank cut from a piece of fabric in the form shown in Fig. 3, having a contracted middle part A connecting the two wider end portions A2 and A3. The wider portions of the blank are adapted to be folded each upon itself to form a double thickness4 of fabric on either side of the contracted middle portionA, as shown in Fig. 5. y After the blank is thus folded the contracted portion A is provided with a transverse middle fold A4, and one of the plies thus formed in such portion is folded over upon one of the double-ply end portions, as A2, of the blank and secured thereto along one edge by the line of stitching A5. l The other ply formed by the middle fold A? in the middle portion of the blank is in a similar manner folded over upon the other doubleply end portion of the blank and secured thereto by the line of stitching A6, after which the two double-ply end portions of the blank are superposed oneupon another and connected by an edge line of stitching A7 beyond the portion faced by the rentrant y folded part A'. I thus produce a band having a bifurcated end, having the walls of the bifurcation reinforced bythe continuous facing formed by the rentrant folded portion A', which is integral with all of the plies of the band, as shown in Figs. 8 and 9. The plies of the body of the band and of each branch of the bifurcated end of the band are then inverted or turned inside out from the positions shown in Figs. 8 and 9 to those shown in Figs. l, 10, and 12, after which the band is completed by forming a buttonhole B in one branch of its bifurcated end, as shown. The

band as thus constructed may be attached to IOO ' contact of the same with the person of the wearer and having 'the walls of such opening reinforced by a continuous facing which is integral with the body-plies of the band. The band, as above described, is provided with two outer plies, as A2 and A3, and with two inner plies formed by the extended portions A8 and A9 of the blank, as shown in Fig. 3; and it will be seen from an inspection of Figs. 1 and 12 that after the plies of the band have been inverted the end of each inner ply is inclosed in a fold in the fabric which connects the facing with an outer ply of the band, which folds form finished end edges for the band, which may be left unstitched, if desired, as shown at D D in Fig. 1, the ends of the inner plies being held in place and prevented from fraying out by such folds.

The blank shown in Fig. 3 is adapted to forma band having square ends, as shown in Fig. 1, and its body portion composed of four plies.

Should it be desired to produce a band having a rounded end, as indicated by dotted lines C in Fig. 1, the outline of the blank would be changed, as indicated by the dotted lines C in Fig. 3, and the construction proceeded with as above described, the edge lines of stitching A5 and A6 being continued along the curved edges of the blank.

When itis desired to make the outer plies of the band of different qualities or patterns of fabric, the blank may be divided along the broken line F in Fig. 3, in which case the portion of the blank at the left of such line of division may be made of a different fabric from the rest of the blank. In the latter case the facing is integral with one portion of the blank or one of the outer plies of the band only, and in Fig. 13 I have shown the Inanner in which the end of such facing is secured to the other separate portion of the blank. The band formed in this manner is shown in Fig. 2.

The number of plies of the band may be reduced to three or two by omitting from the blank one or both of the extended portions A8 and A, which form the inner plies of the band, as by cutting the blank along the broken lines C2 in Fig. 3.

I am aware that aneckband has been made of two strips, one being folded lengthwise and stitched to the other along one edge thereof, except at one end, wherein a short strip was secured as a fly-opening facing. I am also aware that a buttonhole-covering flap has been formed integrally with the inner ply of a neckband, and such devices are not of my invention. It is characteristic of my improvement that the iiy-opening is faced by an endwise-folded piece rentrant between the outer and inner lengthwisefolded band plies and integral therewith.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is

1. The buttonhole-band having a plurality of plies, a iiy-opening between said plies at one end thereof, and an inner facing for the .said opening consisting of a folded piece integral With the plies and rentrant between them, substantially as described.

2. A buttonhole-band for garments comprising inner and outer plies of fabric separated at one end to form a iiy-opening, one of the outer plies having an integral reentrant folded facing secured along one of its edges to the outer and inner walls of the yopening, and having the end of one of said inner plies inclosed in the fold which connects said integral ply and facing, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 6th day of November, 1897.

GEORGE BOXLEY.

Witnesses:

FRANK C. CURTIS, M. R. MURRAY. 

